Thanks, Scott. It was nice to see that my program, even when not followed that well, has some effectiveness in areas that I had somewhat neglected previously. If I can turn the corner on the lifts and start getting some modest PRs, I'll be much happier.

Nice 1 mile run! Also, nice little metcon there on your last post. I have never even thought of backwards bear crawl.

Thanks, Jesse. You, too, Nik, but now that I think about it, I realize that I had run a faster mile at the beginning of a 5K for which I trained 2.5 years ago. It was closer to 6:15. I wasn't timing it myself, but I distinctly remember the girl on the side of the road calling out our times and realizing that I had gone out way too fast.

The backwards bear crawl is a staple for me. It really feels almost as much a fundamental movement pattern as the forward version, at least if backpedaling is part of your sport. It is definitely less forgiving of form faults than a forward crawl, where it's easy to move along clumsily with your butt way up in the air.

Seeing as I was here checking out Scott's log, I figured I should at least post a little update. Had a bit of a work-dominated November and December, but I've kept-up with the lifting since the holidays, at least when I'm not off skiing multiple days. That's gone well, with a few rep PRs and decent progress on the lower body stuff. Just started back-in on running this past week and have a 5K charity run in May to keep me focused on that front.

Upper body stuff is hit-and-miss. I've been super careful with pressing stuff, doing pushup variationss and DB presses only and working on mobility with OHS and empty bar OH presses, but things flared-up when I worked-up to heavy singles on weighted pullups. That's never been a problem before, but I gave it a rest and am starting back-in on my upper body progression again and will pay closer attention before I start hanging too much weight off my old bones.

I finally built myself a lifting platform. (The old garage was chewed-up enough that it dissipated the energy of a falling barbell itself, but I've been lowering weights pretty carefully for the past 6 months, and that's not really the point of the olympic lifts, so it was high time I did this.) I attached a pic of the new setup. I just need to construct a place to hang my rings properly, once the snow has disappeared. The new platform inspired a new power clean 2RM. (Actually, the weight was planned-out at the beginning of the cycle, but it didn't hurt to be able to dump that first rep, before pulling the 2nd.

I won't be logging all my workouts here. I spend too much time in front of the computer as it is, and I'd rather put my energy into the workouts, and it has definitely helped me to cut-back on social media. I'll check-in from time-to-time, however.